Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-09-30

sheet open on the table before her, and keep
ing hold of it
What does it mean?' be demanded, staring
grimly down upon her
Now everybody knows what a distressing
thing it is to have your original compositions
read by person of no sympathy Or apprecia-
ton, and perhaps it was this which agitated
Miss Hare. At any rate, she could not think
of serviceable lie at the moment, and began
to pour out assurances of having meant no
harm, and it was only what everybody would
know before the next number was out.
Then | understand that you were going to
send this to the papers," he broke in upon the
confused sentences.
"Only to They Say. She did send little
things sometimes There was no harm; only
he must please not mention it. ="
"Then you have no authority to publish
thisl You have not been desired to do sol
Why should you then-what do you expect to
gam by it2'
To his astonishment she took the question
literally.
Perhaps half guinea she answered; and
there WAS pause.
Eveiad had borne much and forgone much
to place his own sister above such miserable
shifts as this, but he was not thinking of that
OF Of her
You have no authority, YOU say. How do
you know that this is true2'
Oh, yes. il was true, she knew; Mr.. Theak-
ston had told her And George sickened as
he heard it
"May ask, !" he said, with something like
anger, Tin what way Miss Greville's engage
ment can interest your readersr
| Oh, not at ALI II she were engaged to any
| body, 10 himself for instance, the editor would
| not thank her for the announcement. 1t was
| because Mr.. Theakstan-
| George turned abruptly and left the room
with the paper in his hand. In his old place
| by the window he smoothed it out and read
| it over and over The beloved name and
the name he hated in conjunction. 1t had
| been all very well to contemplate this
wretched possibility from day to day, fearing
it and hating it until he believed it Ger
tainty; it had been very well to refer to it be
fore Leslie as It thing inevitable, and Il
admit his confirmation of 1t, but now that hi
had it before him in black and white, now
that his sleeping dread had sprung suddenly
10 life, confronting him, he saw it III all it.
mon>trosity and drformity.
Cicely tireVill,,- Edward Theakston.
1t was Il lie! Tine girl had invented it fol
profit, or 1heakSton had deceived her !
that-if Theakston A savage pleasure can't
into his face at the prospect of a reckoning
Then lie tried TO think it out soberly. II,
was conscious of the dulness of BRAN tina
comes from want of sleep and he had a feel
ing that by waiting he should come to
clearer comprehension of this thing So h
set himself 60 resi- rather than to think Blu
only to go round III the old mill To feel, a
often before. first the mcredihility of he
caring for any man but himself, his grea
love refusing to believe itself without return
then, the conviction born of joyless life
that happiness was not for him. Then h
tried To realize how it would be tomorrow
when he had left her and gone back to hi
lodgings, the rooms he had always felt S
hreary, until he had peopled them wit
visions Of her To 60 back to them di,
inantled-ft,a last state Of that man would in
deed be worse than the first He should hea
of her-of this marriage shortly about I
take place-NoI by heavens lie should not
he knew in his soul the thing could never be